Radio Barbelith is back on the air. Every day over the last week that I haven’t been able to update the site I have felt more and more anxious – what if everyone got bored and wandered off? I mean – there are thousands of wonderful weblogs that are updated every day without fail. They wouldn’t let something as tiny as a holiday interfere with their duty to their readers. (I am thinking of stable barbelith links like kottke.org, riothero and megnut)
Well, anyway, it’s back and not likely to go away again in a hurry. And that’s even considering the difficult situation I find myself in. Regular readers will know of my homelessness – a couple of weeks ago I moved out of my flat in Hampstead and took all my stuff up to my parents’ place in Norfolk – and then of course I embarked on my epic voyage to LA. I am now back in London, only to find that Virgin have mislaid half of my luggage, my mobile phone has run out of energy and I can’t contact any of the people who said that they might be prepared to put me up for a couple of nights. Tom Coates – homeless, without any clean clothes or means of communication…
But of course I must not dwell on such concerns (shit shit shit shit shit shit shit), and instead must talk about my time in LA. I can’t even begin to talk about everything, but a few images really stick in my mind – flying over the lights of Las Vegas at night (able to pick out individual casinos and roads), half naked men bouncing up and down on coffee tables, the sun setting over Venice Beach and the madman with the bubble machine. And of course, my ever gracious and hospitable hosts, Kerry and Sean.
Quite a lot has happened on the web while I have been away as well. blogger has been redesigned (by none other than powazek himself and even riothero has reached some kind of design plateau after the frantic changes of the last month. More later, as and when I get the chance…